EBM/CSULB Japanese Garden #12 by goodoleboy
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Captured yesterday, 6/29/09, at the beautiful Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden on the beautiful campus of California State University Long Beach in beautiful Long Beach, California.
My last visit there was in December of 2005, where I was overwhelmed by the serene and stark beauty of the Garden with its lovely greenery and fin-to-fin, koi-packed pond, many photos of which I posted on my gallery some time ago.
On my return yesterday, I encountered the same beauty of the immaculately kept Garden, with its crystal clear pond water, but to my surprise and horror, I found the pond mostly devoid of koi, my favorite foto fish. On inquiry, I learned that the entire stock of fish, numbering in the hundreds that I so remember, had been completely decimated by the highly contagious and deadly Koi Herpes Virus (KHV), variants: cyprinid herpesvirus-3 (CyHCV-3), Carp Gill Necrosis Virus (CGNV), and Carp Nephritis Gill Virus (CNGV).
So, since that catastrophe, the pond has been sterilized and restocked with koi, which number about thirty so far, many of them mere babies. According to the docent, it'll be around the end of 2010 before the koi reach the population they had prior to the KHV.
In any event, I still took about a hundred photos while I was there and will be displaying them as time goes by.
And the lily pads and reflections look great in the unbelieveably cool clear water.
Tallyho.
Comments (18)
durleybeachbum
It looks much better with less fish, although the photo opps are less! lovely shots.
MrsRatbag
That's so sad! All those beautiful fish...well, the water looks lovely, as do the plantings and lily pads. Hopefully it will return to its pre-disease status and not get reinfected. Darn those viruses! It's a lovely set of photos, and a beautiful garden!
bmac62
A beautiful pond. I can imagine how low you must have felt upon finding next to no Koi there. Glad to hear the 2010 date. I haven't seen your earlier photos but these photos will be a milestone for their comeback.
tizjezzme
Very pretty place; and awesome pond. I LOVE KOI ... may they thrive and make a huge comeback!
danapommet
The lilly pond is so tranquil. Don't fret with today - look forward to tomorrow. Beautiful collage and the bottom photo, single Koi, has great detail. Dana
Digitaleagle
Fantastic shots and collage, beautiful work!!!
Meisiekind
What a tragedy Harry - all those stunning koi dying! That is such a huge loss! But I have to agree with you - the garden is stunning and your collage stellar!! What a beautiful place to visit.. I don't blame you that you took 100's of images! I love the shadows of the lilies on the bottom of the pond.. WOW! :)
beachzz
A gorgeous place, terrible about the koi!!
CavalierLady
Lovely collage, Harry, with beautiful lily ponds. I'm sure the koi will reproduce very successfully and provide even more photo opportunities.
morningglory
Love the green colors, the Lily Pads are wonderful. So sorry about the Koi.
jocko500
these are wonderful shots of this place
elfin14doaks
This is totally awesome and very relaxing.....I need to go there. Great series.
odie
What beautiful reflections. What a great place to take senior portraits. (teenagers not "seniors"...lol) Good luck to the baby Koi!
Biffowitz
Sad to hear of the koi viri and the ponds catastrophe, glad it's being re stocked though. I especially like the second shot O'lboy, the pond itself looks great. Cool shots of the koi too, in the first one they look like radio controlled subs :) Nice work once again my friend!
debbielove
Now THIS is really quite a beautiful selection of pictures. Full marks! Rob.
JaneEden
Now I really like all of these fabulous captures Harry, all very very beautiful. My uncle used to have quite a number of Koi carp, then we took them over when he died. We had no idea what they were worth, when we gave them to our Doctor who had a lake to put them in. I love these pics Harry, hugs Jane xx
anahata.c
a beautiful montage of water surfaces, pads, tall grasses in water, rocks and all the other things that inhabit these well-designed gardens. (You may already know this, but it's such a revered art in some circles that when one entered the home with a big garden outside, one was supposed to give a critique of real depth, finding the inner meaning of the thing. In some Zen circles, if you missed the 'meaning', you were scolded and told to try again. [I think I'd rather eat out!]) Then of course you have your journey, from the upper full shots to closeups in the water, and a solitary fish at bottom. The fish is amazingly colored, as if someone painted his back or put on those huge decals that you & Bill show in your wonderful plane shots. And you caught the diffuse light of the water, which makes it very painterly. Lots of beauty in these shots, and that last koi is a real knockout of a fish. I'm glad they're back too...
Erestorfan
What an exquisite place!! The water is SO clear and the shadows cast on the bottom of the pond really add to the beauty of your shots. I can't imagine losing that many koi! Our koi have become pets, not just fish in our pond and three years ago in the summer we had a bacterial 'plague' go through our pond and we buried six of our large, mature butterfly koi...it was a time of tears...but the fish are coming back and we have actually had four koi hatched in the pond who are growing very well.